Guardian Music — Distinguished and subtle New Orleans arranger and musicianWhen the tape stopped rolling as the string section finished playing Wardell Quezergue's orchestration of Mona Lisa, the old Nat King Cole song, for the Neville Brothers' album Fiyo On the Bay... more info

ContactMusic — Pixie Lott felt "overwhelmed" when she recorded a song with Stevie Wonder. The British singer is still astonished that she got to collaborate with the iconic singer and 'Ordinary People' hitmaker John Legend on her forthcoming new album because she i... more info

Guardian Music — Prince Fatty and Mutant Hi-Fi team up with Jamaican reggae crooner Little Roy on cover album Battle For SeattleReleased to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, Battle For Seattle is a reggae take on 10 of the band's classic trac... more info

Guardian Music — (Concord) This album from São Paulo's Eliane Elias is more orthodox than Emily Saunders's, but it's delivered with effortless musicality and idiomatic variety. Elias has dominated this territory since the 1980s as a vocalist and a postbop pianist. T... more info

ContactMusic — Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson paid moving tributes to music mogul Berry Gordy's sister Esther Gordy Edwards at her funeral on Wednesday (31Aug11). Gordy Edwards, who founded the Motown Museum to preserve the legacy of the record label her brother... more info

Detroit Free Press — Esther Gordy Edwards' brother Berry Gordy Jr., Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and many other Motown artists are among the hundreds gathered at Detroit's Bethel AME Church for a warm farewell to Edwards, the label's former vice president ... more info

USA Today Music — Hundreds packed a Detroit church Wednesday to give a final goodbye to the Motown legend. more info

ContactMusic — Sting will celebrate his upcoming 60th birthday in style - he's staging a charity concert featuring Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder. The rocker, who turns the milestone on 2 October (11), is to mark the date with a charity show, and he... more info

Guardian Music — Key Motown Records executive who helped her brother Berry found the companyWhen Berry Gordy Jr asked his parents and seven siblings for an $800 loan with which to start his own record label, his oldest sister was the last to agree. Esther Gordy Edwar... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - Music legends Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder are to take the stage for a landmark hunger benefit in Los Angeles next month. more info